My name is Kass and I'm a clothing historian living in the city of Eindhoven in the South of the Netherlands. Back in the 1980s, I lived in Kyoto, Japan and went to a Japanese University there (Doshisha Daigaku). I came back to the US fairly fluent in Japanese, and also studied French, Italian, and Irish. Now I live surrounded by Dutch people who speak excellent English, so I am not challenged to speak any other languages. But I don't want to be "that American". I have made my home in the Netherlands and want to speak Dutch. Eventually I would like to brush up on all my languages and then learn some new ones. But first, Dutch.